Female Scientist Strand

Dish Life

Chloë Thomas

"It's like having thousands of pets!" Dish Life compares the task of raising stem cells in the lab to the challenge of looking after a gang of unruly kids. In conversation with real-life children, scientists show how tricky it is to work with these 'super cells'.
Dish Life is the result of a collaboration between filmmaker Chloe Thomas (director), and stem cell researcher Loriana Vitillo & sociologist Karen Jent (executive producers). The film was realised with funding from the University of Cambridge and the Wellcome Trust and is part of the Life in Glass initiative.
Director / Writer | Chloe Thomas
Producers | Loriana Vitillo, Karen Jent
DoP | Gabi Norland
Sound | Bridget Bradshaw
Editor | Michael Johnson
Music | Jim Meacock

Think Like a Scientist -- Natural Selection in an Outbreak

Nate Dappen Neil Loisin

The tragic 2013-2015 Ebola outbreak in west Africa shocked the world. In this episode of Think Like a Scientist, computational genetiicist Pardis Sabeti and disease ecologist Lina Moses bring us to the front line of the epidemic and explain the science behind how this event became the largest ebola outbreak in history. This film was produced by Day's Edge Productions for HHMI BioInteractive and Nautilus Magazine. Check out the full story here: autil.us/issue/41/selection/natural-selection-in-an-outbreak

The Perfect Apple

Maria Juranic Rachel Meyer

For as long as humans lived around malus species, they've been eating apples. The apple tree has been domesticated, diversified - it has evolved in new ways via natural and artificial selection. But what is the perfect apple?
Evolution of crop species: genetics of domestication and diversification.
Imagine Science Film Festival 2014, 48hr Competition
Scientist: Rachel Mayer, Filmmaker: Maria Juranic
Prop: Time Piece
Line of Dialogue: "They said it would be ready at noon."
Character: Eleanor Drew, Principal Investigator

Haptics Tactics

Nguyen Khoi Nguyen

Allison Okamura and the CHARM lab at Stanford University focus on what the sense of touch can bring to robot-human interactions.
Learn more : http://specialprojects.sciencemag.org/xxfiles/

Under The Skin

Miao Wang

Zhenan Bao and her team at Stanford University are one of many teams around the world harnessing Polymers to help us develop a near perfect replcation of human skin.

I am a Mobile Element: A Conversation with Emmanuelle Charpentier

Alexis Gambis

2020 Nobel Prize laureate Emmnauelle Charpentier discusses her hybrid identity, nomadic life and career, jumping off CRISPR-Cas9 to discuss broader elements around mobile elements and migration around the science.
Directed by Alexis Gambis / Cinematography by Yosuke Eddie Hosoi / Editing & Animation by Gergo Vargo / Music by Garreth Chan
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